that’s catchy; or, how out of touch I am with mainstream music
New and Used Records point out this catchy video to me as “crossing the line between Sam Cooke and T-Pain”. Funnily enough, this song was number 1 in the US (and other countries) for four weeks and I hadn’t heard it.
It’s “Beautiful Girls” by Sean Kingston, a 17 year old from Jamaica/ Miami. It’s pretty derivate and repetitive, but he’s got a nice voice and the music works well. Oh and the chorus is super catchy.
I’d like to hear more of his stuff. I hope whoever his future producers are lay off of the auto-tune, though. There are a couple spots in the song where it’s really obvious. In other points of the song, he slides between notes quite gracefully, so it seems that he doesn’t need the pitch correction too much.
[...] Remember when everyone, indie or otherwise was covering Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” a couple years ago? Well, I’m starting to see that this year’s neo-soul song that all the white kids are covering is Sean Kingston’s “Beautiful Girls” which I talked about before. [...]
[...] a way, the Stoop overall reminds me a Sean Kingston ditty you may remember from last year. Both have retro charms. And both are extremely catchy and fun, and are suitable for [...]